Cultural Geography of Latin America Part 2

Which of the

following actions is not an example of US involvement

in Latin America?

• building the Panama Canal

• intervening in Central American governments during the Cold War

• engaging in the Spanish-American War

• bringing the tradition of

  Carnival to Brazil

The mestizo population group is

a majority group in most Latin American countries. Mestizos are best described

as people __________.

• of mixed Spanish and African

  heritage

• of Spanish descent who were born

  in the Americas

• who were born in Spain but live

  in the New World

• of mixed Spanish and Native

  American heritage

As the result of hundreds of

years of assimilation with Spanish culture, the most common religion

in Latin America is __________.

• Protestantism

• Roman Catholicism

• Islam

• Eastern Orthodox

After enslaving native

populations, European colonists often imported enslaved __________ for forced

labor on sugarcane plantations.

• mestizos

• Africans

• peninsulares

• criollos

Which European nation was

the most influential in colonizing Brazil?

• Spain

• France

• Portugal

• England

The US government in Latin America during the Cold War, often in an attempt to

• establish agricultural trade, especially for tropical fruit such as bananas

• rebuild the

  Panama Canal and increase shipping

• promote

  English as the most common language in the region

• stop the spread of communism in the region

  
  

All of the following were pre-Columbian civilizations in Latin America, except __________.

• the Olmec

• the Navajo

• the Aztec

• the Maya